Halda - Místecká

Perfect place for a walk, but now it's a lot overgrown or repellent is not enough for mosquitoes ?

Beautiful quiet place, ideal for walks with a dog or children

Not many people go here, so I use this place to fly a drone.

Quite a decent place to walk. After climbing to the top of the heap, you can see Silesian Ostrava, Emu Heap, NHKG today Liberty Ostrava, Beskydy, Dubina and in case of nice weather you can also see Lysá hora. Here you can see a pheasant, a roe deer, a hare, but also flying predators. A mallard, teal, seagull and, exceptionally, a cormorant stay on the water surface. Uneducated visitors are a big problem. Everything they bring with them (bottles, papers, cans, etc.) will be left in place. Even old tires. Mini-landfills are slowly forming here. :-( Originally the heap was called Stará halda, today Hda Hrabůvka. Unlike many others, it was not formed by the accumulation of tailings from coal mining, but it consists mainly of slag from the metallurgical production of the Vítkovice Ironworks. Hrabůvka heap is freely accessible from the side of Hrabová. All you have to do is conquer a small hill and then you will walk on flat and very diverse terrain. From forest paths, through bushes, grassy areas to a newly built lake. It formed on the windward side of the heap as a kind of stopper. The heap still showed thermal activity and the water surface is supposed to prevent the access of oxygen to the coal tailings. The lake, which people call the "Ostrava Sea", covers an area of ​​4.5 hectares and retains 180,000 cubic meters of water, which were drawn here from the river Ostravice. Clean water in an attractive environment invites you to swim. But this is strictly forbidden in this technical tank! The bottom of the lake consists of base layers and special foils. However, the subsoil is not stable. If the sealing foils were to be damaged in any way, the water in the tank would drop and the swimmers would be trapped! They wouldn't be able to climb ashore after the slippery foil! But even if you don't swim in the lake on the Hrabůvka Heap, this place is definitely worth a visit. Here you can feel like you are at a sea bay somewhere in Scandinavia. The immediate vicinity of the lake is formed by steppe vegetation. In addition, you will not see any urban development from the top of the heap, only the panorama of the Beskydy Mountains, another heap on the horizon and, as a typical Ostrava bonus, the smoking chimneys of the smelter. author of heap description: Romana Kubicová

Don't expect the view here, but if you go for a picnic, it's a very good choice

Beautiful place to relax, but people, please clean up after yourself! ?